RE: FLASH: 3D in Flash - Hopefully an enticing proposition

[Branden Hall]

Oh, I forgot to mention... I also made this one:

www.figleaf.com/development/flash4/flashchem.swf

a while back.. its faster than the gumball engine... even though its not

doing that shading, etc.

Its reading from a PHP file that is converting XYZ format molecular files

into a flash-friendly format.


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software - "We've got you covered!"



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I created the first 3D point engine in Flash back in June of this year:

www.labyrinth.cx/gumball7.swf


Given how flash is now, a lot of what you speak about is simply not possible

or not practical.

I made a 3D triangle engine a while back, but despite all of my attempts at

optimization, it was just too slow. Flash's scripting language is simply not

robust enough to support much more than points and lines (and even doing

backface removal with lines is too much!)


1) Change RGB settings for an instance of a symbol

You can't do this. Sorry


2) Rotate, skew and scale (in independant axes) an instance of a symbol

Rotate and scale yes, skew, no.


3) Display and hide instances as required.

Yes, but it can be a royal bitch to do, especially if it involves change

z-ordering of objects.


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software - "We've got you covered!"



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